Cuero Leather Cycling Gloves: Quick Review- by Guitar Ted Cycling is an equipment intensive sport, no doubt about that. While one could ride with “just a bicycle” and no other special equipment, you quickly find out that the experience can be enhanced by adding certain accessories to the bicycle. Now, you can take this as […]
<Back to News Home | Redshift Sports ShockStop Stem: Getting Rolling- by Guitar Ted In the world of unpaved road riding, there is a focus of late upon how vibrations are dealt with that could have a negative effect upon the rider and on handling. Puffy tires, special frame designs, shock absorbing seat posts, and […]
<Back to News Home | WTB Riddler TCS 45c Tire: At The Finish- by MG At TransIowa v.12 this past April, I was stoked to get a chance to see WTB’s new (at the time) 37c Riddler tires. As Guitar Ted’s wing man/driver/comic relief for the event, I didn’t get a set of the tires […]
<Back to News Home | Recently the 11th Dirty Kanza 200 happened and it was another successful event. I was there, but I didn’t go to race. I’ve done the event several times before, dating back to the first one. I have seen this popular gravel road race become something I don’t think any of […]
<Back to News Home | This is that time of the year that the weather is hard to handle. We’re teased with the promise of early summer beautiful weather and the door is quickly shut with cool temps, rain, snow, and wind, especially in northern areas throughout the country and world. The trees are still bare […]
<Back to News Home | Miesville FiftySix The Miesville gang is friends of Riding Gravel and we know many of you will be out there riding the Miesville FiftySix on Sunday, May 1st in Miesville, Minnesota, so we wanted to share some information about the ride and the gear that they have available. If you’re […]
Cirrus Cycles Body Float Suspension Seatpost: Checkpoint — In the two months since we introduced you to the Body Float suspension seatpost from Cirrus Cycles, we’ve been blessed with some of the best late-fall riding in recent memory. This has given us ample time to ride the posts on a variety of bikes, in conditions including gravel […]
<Back to News Home | Suspension seatposts were a hot item in the late-1990s and early-2000s, particularly with mountain bike riders looking to add a bit of cush to their old hardtails. Unfortunately, those early designs reflected their first-generation status, and each had flaws that hindered its ultimate performance. The earliest suspension posts were telescopic, […]
<Back to News Home | Panaracer Comet Hardpack Tires: Quick Review- by Grannygear: I saw the Comet Hardpacks at the Panaracer booth at Sea Otter when I was in the middle of my Warbird gravel bike build and I thought, “That is a good looking tire for real dirt roads.” See, we have very little gravel […]
<Back to News Home | Sometimes the dirt roads are better than anything. Monday Motivation: Dirt Roads: Gravel roads are really fun to ride, sure. However; I often find dirt roads are more fun. Often times the dirt road is more interesting, more challenging, and in many cases, faster and smoother than pavement. Dirt roads have […]
